I’m thrilled that I have daughters who love to cook, especially on those nights when I’m not up for making dinner. And last night was one of those nights! So my eight-year-old, yes 8 year old!, made us all dinner using a lasagna recipe she got from her new cookbook from Betty Crocker called Kids [...]

One way I like to make holidays and special occasions even more festive is to make fun treats. Now that my daughters love to cook in the kitchen with me, preparing such a dessert becomes an enjoyable way to spend time together too!
So in honor of Valentine’s Day this week, I’ve compiled some of our [...]

We love breakfast foods and often have breakfast meals for dinner. One of our favorite breakfast meals to make is chocolate chip banana pancakes. And while we do like the sweetness of the chocolate chips, I feel better knowing these pancakes also have fresh bananas in them!

Ingredients to Make Chocolate Chip Banana Pancakes:

1 cup flour
1 [...]

Valentine’s Day is definitely about the treats, like Jello Valentine Hearts, Valentine Cookie Pops and Valentine Rice Krispie Treats. But not all Valentine treats have to be sweet though! So shake things up a bit and give your kids these Valentine heart sandwiches. It makes the same old sandwich they’re used to become a special [...]

We love making recipes with chocolate chips. We’ve made chocolate chip banana pancakes, chocolate chip pie and of course chocolate chip cookies. However, it wasn’t until my oldest daughter requested oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for her birthday that we made this particular recipe using chocolate chips. Not surprisingly, we love oatmeal chocolate chip cookies as [...]

As you know, I like to bake with my girls, especially around the holidays. So far we’ve made chocolate chip cookie pie and soon we’ll be baking our cookies for Santa. Since there’s so much to do around the holidays, I’m always looking for recipes that are not only yummy, but easy!  Last year, my [...]